Recognising Palestinian state now is foolishly naïve
First France, then the UK, and then Canada promised to formally recognise the Palestinian state in September. This is terrible policy. For once, I agree
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Two visions of what SA can be
Is South Africa doomed? Many think it is. Those who believe the end is nigh share a bleak but increasingly common outlook. In their telling, South Africa’s decline is not only severe: it is irreversible. In this interpretation, today’s trendlines
Death, taxes and the thinning of global news
Like many of my colleagues and friends who have always consumed daily news as a matter of habit and pleasure, there is, of late, a slight feeling of dread upon awakening as I groggily look at my phone to see
No, the Nazis did not “protect” private property, for one simple reason
The modern left gets much joy from construing anything to the right of Karl Marx as “fascist” or “Nazi,” but get upset when, inevitably, it is pointed out what the “zi” in “Nazi” stands for. No way, they exclaim, just
Ramaphosa’s plans in shambles
Nicholas Lorimer and Chris Hattingh discuss the ANC's foreign policy and how it seems to be completely falling apart, as well as Eskom's desperate attempts to hold on to its monopoly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thlHkckz3tw
Johannesburg central to how SA will reset
Listen to the talk shows on the radio, the policy wonks and people on the street. There is a growing sense of collapse and crisis. Not only is the economy hardly growing and unemployment at astronomical levels, and our dorps
South Africa's State highjacked to feed the connected
Michael Morris and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the inability of the Mpumalanga Education Provincial Department to fill vacancies, the life expectancy of South Africans, and infrastructure, and why it matters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_qJWDcJpoQ
US-EU “biggest deal ever made”; but how good is it?
Donald Trump and EU announced the “biggest deal ever made” between the US and EU. US import tariffs remain at 15%. Looking as smug as can be, Trump, flanked by the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen,
Freedom from poverty: the cost of fake transformation
Twenty-seven years after the passage of the Employment Equity Act, and twenty-three years after the passage of that millstone around neck of South Africa’s economy, BEE, ordinary South Africans are yet to see the ostensible benefits that this legislation was